Stem Cell Hierarchy

Stem Cell Hierarchy

As the stem cell develops, the initial stages of fertilisation until the Blastocyst stage, has the most powerful totipotent potential to develop into any cell of the whole body, or the whole mature organism. The next stage of the stem cell life is the pluripotent cell stage where it can develop into most of the body tissue types.

Going further down the hierarchy, it reach the stages of multipotent and progenitor stem cell, where it can develop into limited different types of cell. A blood progenitor cell can only develops into blood cell series.